Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese · Vietnamese
彩
“colour; dye”
彩 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
Chinese and Japanese and VietnameseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Aya.
Meaning & origin
What it means
彩 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-tsəw-s/t, meaning “colour; dye.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-tsəw-s/t (“colour; dye”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
彩’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 彩 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Aya.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named 彩
- Aya SameshimaJapanese association football playerborn 1987
- Aya UetoJapanese actress, singer, model, tarento, and occasional radio personalityborn 1985
- Aya UchidaJapanese voice actress and singerborn 1986
- Aya SugimotoJapanese gravure idolborn 1968
- Aya IshiguroJapanese singer and dancerborn 1978
- Aya OhoriJapanese badminton playerborn 1996
- Aya AsahinaJapanese model and actress (born 1993)
- Aya YokoshimaJapanese handball playerborn 1990
- Kim Chae-hwaSouth Korean figure skaterborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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